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Tablets that incorporate mobile health (mHealth) technology may help health care professionals screen pregnant patients for depression.

Vitamin D insufficiency may raise the odds of depressive symptoms in college-aged women.

Women who smoke during pregnancy may be putting their children at risk for developing diabetes in adulthood.

Without allocating more funds toward human papillomavirus vaccinations, there may be better public health results if funds were devoted to vaccinating boys as well as girls.

The new Gardasil vaccine protects against 9 different strains of the virus.

Almost all women and seniors with atrial fibrillation should be receiving blood thinners, advises a new analysis of updated clinical practice guidelines.

A new FDA approval has given women seeking long-term birth control an additional option.

Breast-fed babies are typically exposed to less arsenic than babies who are fed formula.

Given the growing number of women taking a custom-compounded hormone therapy, a new study highlighted a greater need for patient education on the formulations.

A postmenopausal woman's score on a fracture risk scale can tip off her clinicians to gum disease.

For some women, frequent menopausal vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats could last for more than 7 years.

Three women connected to pharmacy burglaries in North Dakota last year have been sentenced to prison.

Women tend to experience more stress after acute myocardial infarction, which can translate to a worse recovery, according to a new study.

Roughly half of all women experience at least 1 urinary tract infection in their lifetime. The problem becomes recurrent for many, so effective non-antibiotic preventive therapies are needed.

Exposure to even low levels of mercury may be associated with autoimmune disorder development among women of childbearing age.

Although there have been concerns that the human papillomavirus vaccine promotes unsafe sex among adolescents, a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that there is no such association after all.

Stress may partly explain why young and middle-aged women have a worse recovery after heart attack.

The American Heart Association's Go Red For Women® is asking all Americans to Go Red to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke in women during the 12th annual National Wear Red Day® on Friday, February 6, 2015. The face of heart disease and stroke has changed, and 1 in 3 women will die.

The FDA today granted accelerated approval to a drug that treats breast cancer in postmenopausal women by attacking molecules that promote cancer cell growth.

Despite efforts to fortify table salt with iodine, a new study posits that pregnant women are still seeing significant iodine deficiencies that can negatively impact their unborn children's brains.

Mylan Inc. today announced that it has, through its Indian subsidiary Mylan Laboratories Limited, signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain female health care businesses from Famy Care Limited, a specialty women's health care company with global leadership in generic oral contraceptive products (OCPs) for $750 million in cash plus additional contingent payments of up to $50 million.

Reducing elevated blood pressure during pregnancy is safe for the expectant mother and her child.

A primary goal of managing atrial fibrillation is relief of symptoms that include dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, and chest pain. Yet, it is symptomless in up to one-third of patients.

Women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome are more likely to develop heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions than those without the hormone disorder.